Donald Trump is facing a revolt from his most loyal MAGA supporters over fears the largest mass deportation effort in US history could unravel within the next 24 hours amid talks to wind down operations in Minneapolis. The arrival of White House Border Czar Tom Homan on the scene may be a relief to rank-and-file ICE agents who increasingly see Kristi Noem as a haphazard leader. But there’s now a palpable fear among Trump’s most fervent supporters that the leadership swap could foretell a significant change in immigration strategy and lead to capitulation to the left.
Homan’s top priority, according to sources, will be coordinating negotiations between Minnesota Democratic state leaders and the White House in the wake of an agent’s killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti. Immigration hardliners warn that any deal by Homan that leads ICE agents to scale back their presence in Minnesota will be seen as a collapse of Trump’s mass deportation agenda and a win for liberal protesters. These concerns come after Trump said in a Fox News interview on Tuesday that Homeland Security would ‘deescalate a little bit’ in Minneapolis.
